With the release of 2.0, I decided to give PhoneGap another look and head off to the launch talks. Here is a list of what I found interesting…
Things I Learned at PhoneGap Day
21 Jul 2012
Development Posts
Nexus 7 Unboxing Montage
16 Jul 2012
A comedic look at unboxing the new Nexus 7 Android tablet.
Getting Google to Properly Index your Mobile Site
29 Jun 2012
Recently, Google released their Building Smartphone-Optimized Websites recommendations. Within these pages, Google briefly describes the different techniques for implementing mobile-optimized sites and, of course, how to ensure that the horde of Google robots recognizes the relationship between your desktop and mobile sites, and index them accordingly.
Media Queries. Web Standard.
20 Jun 2012
Media queries, the cornerstone of responsive design, have now earned an official W3C recommendation. That means all browsers will be expected to support them from here on out. This brings responsive design from an interesting technique to a working web standard. Go forth and make your site responsive.
Take the Ruby on Rails Hosting In 2012 Survey
30 May 2012
In January 2009 we invited the community to participate in a survey about the state of hosting Ruby on Rails applications. We wanted to get a better understanding of how people are currently managing their deployment and hosting process, and what they’d like to see going forward. Our goal was to use the information provided to help us continue to evolve our hosting-related products and deployment services (this actually helped us decide to accept Bluebox’s acquisition of our hosting business later that year). Additionally, we wanted to provide this information back to the community so that our colleagues in the industry could also use this information in their decision making processes.
Given that it’s been over three years since we ran this survey, we felt that it would be interesting to see just how much the landscape has changed by running another one.
We’ve modified a few of the old questions and added some new ones for good measure. Responses will be collected through the month of June and the results will then be shared with everyone (similar to 2009).
If you have a few minutes to spare, take our survey and help us how Ruby on Rails applications are being deployed in 2012.
Rails Hosting Survey 2012
30 May 2012
Participate in our 2012 Rails Hosting survey!
Google+ Fuss
24 May 2012
Guy Kawasaki releases What the Plus!, in which he explains what “makes Google+ as special as Macintosh”.
I was a little surprised when I first read about this, as my experience of Google+ so far has been like walking down a deserted street, complete with tumbleweed and whistling wind. In all honesty, I’ve probably not been fair with it and wrote it off quite quickly. However, when somebody as well-respected as Guy Kawasaki makes such a bold comparison it did make me want to go take another look at it.
One of the points he makes is the clean interface, with plenty of white space. Google’s interfaces are not for everybody – often being described as utilitarian, but my feeble brain tends to prefer this style. The most important aspect though is whether or not there is any activity, and several months on (with admittedly small circles) I’m still seeing barely any activity. Going there makes you feel like you chose the wrong party. The few people there are standing at the edge of the room, and its all disturbingly quiet.
My prediction? The next Wave.
Tizen Developer Conference
11 May 2012
Tizen is a new mobile software platform that is part of the Linux Foundation and runs HTML5 based apps. They held a developer conference down in San Francisco. I flew down to find out more information about this new operating system.
Considerations To Make For Your Mobile Website
6 Apr 2012
We have been working on a number of mobile-focused projects lately and have come across some issues we don’t normally deal with when producing sites for desktop browsers.
Pairing Devices and Debugging With Adobe Shadow
7 Mar 2012
I just saw a video introducing a new Adobe Labs product- Adobe Shadow. Eric claims to have found the video this morning, but I ask- where’s the proof? Anyway, Adobe Shadow seems like a handy little app capable of wirelessly pairing a desktop/laptop to multiple devices- and sharing browser screens among those devices. I am particularly curious about the built-in Web Inspector that could be used to alter the HTML/CSS being served to the different devices on the fly. Web devs/designers out there- thoughts?